Place 19: Richard's Alley / mini-mall
1958; 1985A pedestrian connector between Main and Center, behind the drug store. Penny-pitching site; later converted into a mini-mall.
About Richard's Alley / mini-mall
Richard’s Alley is a pedestrian connection through central Derry between Main Street and Center Street, running behind the drug store. In the 1958 town it is a narrow urban passage and a recognizable place in its own right. By 1985 the same corridor has been redeveloped into a mini-mall, so the atlas treats one location as two successive forms of downtown space. The feature records circulation and change rather than a conventional building.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The alley is marked A because its endpoints on Main and Center and its position behind the drug store are stated directly. Those three constraints establish both its function and its alignment through the commercial block. The later mini-mall confirms redevelopment at the same corridor but does not provide a surveyed plan. Exact entrances, width, bends, property boundaries, and the footprint of the later complex are reconstructed. Confidence A applies to the connection between streets, not to every vertex of the drawn path.
